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9 years ago @ octopus pie - #889 - the scary parts... · 1 reply · +8 points

I wish someone had ever felt this way about me, or vice versa.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Movie Yelling With Shr... · 0 replies · +11 points

There's a series of comics coming out with the backstories of Joe and Nux (the friendly War Boy), Furiosa, Max, and at least one more. DC's Vertigo imprint, I think the first one is out already.

10 years ago @ octopus pie - #709-714 - i want nothing · 2 replies · +3 points

pretty sure she just became a bodhisattva

11 years ago @ The Toast - Why I Think I Would Ma... · 0 replies · +34 points

I'd have died a sickly, asthmatic child pretty early on, possibly before I was deemed viable enough to be worth naming. Good thing by the time I died mom would probably be pregnant again already.

11 years ago @ octopus pie - #692 + 693 - you are s... · 0 replies · +5 points

it's not even bruises y'all. will has at least five visible nipples.

11 years ago @ The Toast - How To Tell If You Are... · 2 replies · +35 points

I clearly need to read more Borges.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Errors in Luxury Magaz... · 0 replies · +28 points

The equestrian clothing ad retroactively justifies every excess of the French Revolution.

11 years ago @ octopus pie - #677 + 678 - what's di... · 0 replies · +12 points

Holy woah Ms. Gran, these facial expressions are amaaaazing.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Every English Novel Ever · 1 reply · +80 points

"He picked up such un-Godly habits in India."

11 years ago @ The Toast - Bird of the Month: The... · 0 replies · +28 points

Negative western attitudes towards peacocks may be related to their connection with the goddess Hera in Greek myth. There aren't a ton of societies more starkly patriarchal than ancient and Classical Greece and Hera, as eldest and most powerful of the female Olympians, is regularly portrayed as the archetypal nagging, meddling, rebellious wife. She tricks and seduces Zeus at a critical point in the Iliad to swing the Trojan War in a direction she prefers; she's a recurring antagonist of Herakles, and hates the hero as one of her husband's illegitimate children. The peacock was her bird as the eagle was Zeus's, and given her perception among ancient Greek men--as well as those men's general perception of cultures where the bird was held to be lucky as 'effeminate eastern barbarians'--it's unsurprising that they would have a negative view of the peacock, or pass that view down to succeeding cultures.

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